Papers accepted at IVA, SIGDIAL and SemDial

New papers got accepted and will be presented soon at the following conferences:

• “Natural Language Question Understanding” with Christoph as 1st author will be presented at SIGDIAL (Atlanta, US)
• “The Role of Gestures in the Perception of Creative One-Word References by Humans and Virtual Agents” with Lisa as 1st author will appear at ACM IVA 2026 (Puebla, Mexico)
• “When words don’t come easy – How speakers cope with communicatively challenging situations using verbal creativity and co-speech gesture” with Alon and Lisa as 1st authors at SemDial (Loughborough, UK)